Bother Quotes

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
Mark Twain

Understand, Bible, Parts

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
George Bernard Shaw

Happy, Secret, Miserable

I don't understand why people would want to get rid of pigeons. They don't bother no one.
Mike Tyson

Understand, Why, Rid

Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.
Kurt Vonnegut

Alone, Care, Why

I don't let anyone's insecurities, emotions, or opinions bother me. I know that if I am happy, that's all that matters to me.
Demi Lovato

Happy, Anyone, Emotions

Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.
Colin Powell

Yourself, Help, Trying

I had no desire to be an film actress, to always play somebody else, to be always beautiful with somebody constantly straightening out your every eyelash. It was always a big bother to me.
Marlene Dietrich

Beautiful, Play, Big

Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.
Albert Schweitzer

Long, Serious, Illness

Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
Salvador Dali

Cannot, Whatever, Avoid

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
Gustav Mahler

Music, Words, Trying

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Don't bother looking at the view - I have already composed it.
Gustav Mahler

Looking, View, Composed

The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?
Stephen Hawking

Science, Why, Cannot

Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.
Robert Staughton Lynd

Power, Knowledge, Knows

Don't bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add.
Fran Lebowitz

Sex, Children, Small

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.
Michel de Montaigne

Nature, Job, Die

I'm not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I do think that if you have thinks that bother you, things that are unresolved, the more that you talk about them, write about them, the less serious they become.
Stephen King

Good, Become, Big

Advertising is salesmanship mass produced. No one would bother to use advertising if he could talk to all his prospects face-to-face. But he can't.
Morris Hite

Talk, Mass, Prospects

I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.
Agatha Christie

Time, Waiting, Live

Movies always are open to being remade because times change so much, and the tempo of movies changes. I think of it like a James Bond. They can have different actors play the same role... I've had people come up to me and say, 'We want to remake 'The Jerk' with so and so.' And I say, 'Fine.' It just doesn't bother me. It's an honor actually.
Steve Martin

Change, Movies, Different

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
Jean Cocteau

True, Nor, Roses

The story of my life is about back entrances, side doors, secret elevators and other ways of getting in and out of places so that people won't bother me.
Greta Garbo

Life, Secret, Getting

It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.
Emile M. Cioran

Yourself, Worth, Since

Well, Howard Stern has been doing his impression of me for years. It doesn't really bother me.
Jerry Seinfeld

Impression, Stern, Howard

When I see something I like, that's all that counts. What they use, how they get there, I never bother them.
Ang Lee

There's kind of a toll you have to pay with a cat; if you don't pet her for 10 minutes she'll bother you for six hours.
Scott Adams

It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don't sell that many records.
Brian Eno

Why, Quite, Mysterious

A little girl who finds a puzzle frustrating might ask her busy mother (or teacher) for help. The child gets one message if her mother expresses clear pleasure at the request and quite another if mommy responds with a curt 'Don't bother me - I've got important work to do.'
Daniel Goleman

Work, Teacher, Mother

School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect so why bother.
Tre Cool

Future, School, Perfect

When I hear a guy lost a battle to cancer, that really did bother me, that that's a term. It implies that he failed and that somebody else that defeated cancer is heroic and courageous.
Norm MacDonald

Lost, Battle, Else

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
W. H. Auden

Aim, Writers, Confuse

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